techdirt.com Archives - 19 August 2017, Saturday

We've been saying this for years, but IP addresses are not good enough evidence on which to base copyright infringement lawsuits. At some level, everyone already knows this to be true. You can tell that's the case because the typical pretenders stating otherwise are the copyright trol...

YouTuber Jailed In Singapore For Criticizing The Government Seeks Asylum In The US from the are-we-still-a-country-that-believes-in-free-speech? dept Last year, we wrote about the ridiculous situation for Amos Yee, a teenager in Singapore who was arrested for some of his YouTube video...

Daily Deal: The Complete Ruby on Rails Super Bundle from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept Master one of the most popular web app frameworks with the Ruby on Rails Super Bundle . Ruby is designed for rapid prototyping, allowing you to churn out and build site concepts efficiently. Thi...

Earlier this week I got knocked out by some pretty serious food poisoning. The few times I would try to do some work or pop in on Twitter, all I was seeing was people mocking the London Review of Books' somewhat insane 35,000-word-long profile of Craig Wright , the guy who earlier thi...

Bitcoin Evangelist Has Podcast Go Bad, Threatens To Sue After It's Posted from the that's-not-how-it-works dept Folks in the Bitcoin/blockchain world can be fairly opinionated -- that's no surprise. But just because you have an interview go sideways, it doesn't mean you get to threate...

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PayPal Continues To Drive People To Bitcoin And Other Solutions As It Starts Cutting Off VPNs & Open Internet Solutions from the because-of-course-it-is dept There's a fairly long history of Paypal being completely obnoxious in shutting down the accounts of basically anyone challengin...

Louis Vuitton Loses Trademark Lawsuit Over Joke Bag; Judge Tells Company To Maybe Laugh A Little Rather Than Sue from the get-a-sense-of-humor dept When I was very little, my father drove a 1972 Ford Pinto (yes, one of the exploding versions ) that had a faded bumper sticker reading "...

American Teen Gets 11 Year Sentence For Pro-ISIS Tweets That Taught People How To Use Bitcoin from the really,-now? dept Earlier this summer, the DOJ proudly announced that a Virginia teenager, Ali Shukri Amin, had taken a plea deal for "providing material support to ISIL" (the terror...

This bill would enact the Virtual Currency Act. The bill would prohibit a person from engaging in any virtual currency business, as defined, in this state unless the person is licensed by the Commissioner of Business Oversight or is exempt from the licensure requirement, as provided. ...

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Bank Calls Customer Over Detected Bitcoin Transactions, Asking What They Were For from the so-much-for-privacy dept One of the key reasons many people support Bitcoin is that it's supposed to be anonymous, like cash. However, Sean Percival today wrote about how he received a phone cal...

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With the DOJ tracking down and arresting the alleged founder/owner of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, it was noted that it had also seized 26,000 or so Bitcoins . However, in the criminal complaint against Ulbricht, it suggested that his commissions were in the range of $80 million -- or ab...

Feds Take A Step Closer To Trying To Regulate Bitcoin from the control-control-control dept We're still somewhat skeptical about the longterm prospects for Bitcoin, even if it has shown the ability to rebound after its initial hypecycle crashed . However, we've always known that the g...

Copyright Maximalism Never Rests: TPP Talks Continue In Singapore from the unfortunate dept Despite growing protests and concerns about the next big US trade agreement (with Europe), the discussions on the Trans Pacific Partnership continue to move forward, with the latest round takin...

We've written a bunch about the disruptively innovative transportation company Uber , which has been running into regulatory issues with multiple local regulators. Andy Kessler recently had a fantastic interview with Travis Kalanick, Uber's CEO , concerning the regulatory battles he k...

Remember Bitcoin? The online cryptographic currency that got a lot of attention last year, but quickly faded ? There was some political grandstanding against it, like when Senator Chuck Schumer declared that Bitcoin was a form of money laundering . And, now, the FBI is trying to under...

The counterfactual impact analysis of fair use amendments in Singapore undertaken here demonstrates that flexible fair use policy positively influences growth rates in private copying technology industries. In 2010, five years after the policy intervention, Singapore's fair use amendm...

The counterfactual impact analysis of fair use amendments in Singapore undertaken here demonstrates that flexible fair use policy positively influences growth rates in private copying technology industries. In 2010, five years after the policy intervention, Singapore's fair use amendm...

is still raging whether Bitcoin is a brilliant idea that will revolutionize business and society, a high-tech money laundering scheme, or just a fad that will soon pass into history. But in a fascinating post, Jon Matonis points to a problem that doesn't really seem to have been consi...

is still raging whether Bitcoin is a brilliant idea that will revolutionize business and society, a high-tech money laundering scheme, or just a fad that will soon pass into history. But in a fascinating post, Jon Matonis points to a problem that doesn't really seem to have been consi...